Cash-register.



No. 833,826. PATENTED OCT. 23, 1906. J. P. GLEAL.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1904.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

Shrew legs No. 833,826. PATENTED OCT. 23, 1906.

J. P. GLEAL. CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.15, 1904.

3 SHEETSSHEET 2.

PATENTED OCT. 23, 1906.

J. P. GLEAL.

CASH REGISTER.

'APPLIOATION FILED MAR.16, 1904.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

rmirnn srarns PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH P. CLEAL, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TOTHE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A'GORPORATION OFOHIO, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 23, 1906.

Application filed March 15, 1904:. Serial N0, 198,244-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, JOSEPH P. CLEAL, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Dayproved forms-of mechanismfor the screens or the flashes which hide the indicators.

One of the particular objects of my invention is to provide a novelarrangement of indicator-tablets which shall be compactly situated toindicate at a series of sight-openings, one sight-opening for each bankorgroup of keys, whereby the correct indication of the amount ofregistration may be correctly and easily read through said sightopeningsin the manner in which said amounts would ordinarily be written orprinted, and I have also provided means for indicating in this mannerboth at the front and at the rear of the machine.

Another one of the objects of my inven: tion is .to provide improvedscreen or flash mechanism whereby to conceal all the indicatingcharacters which are not necessary for the proper reading of theindication-such, for example, as superfluous indications in the banks ofhigher denomination which are not used in any particularamount'registration.

With these and incidental objects in view the invention consists incertain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, theessential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and apreferred form. of embodiment of which is hereinafter specificallydescribed with reference to the drawings which accompany and form partof this specification.

()fsaid drawings, Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of my machine.Fig. 2 represents a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3represents a detail elevation of the rack-bar for rotating the mainoperating-shaft,showing the key-coupler sectionalized. Fig. 4 representsa detail front elevation of one of the indirzator-yflates. Fig. 5represents a front ele vation of the upper portion of the machine,

showing the indicator mechanism with certain of the registering portionsof the machine removed for the sake of clearness; and Fig. 6 representsa top plan view of that portion of the machine which contains theindicatorplates, which portion is shown in Fig. 5.

T have herein shown my improvements as applied to the type of registerdescribed in Letters Patent to Thomas Carney, No. 497,860, dated May 23,1893; but it is of course to be understood that I do not for any reasonwish to be limited to this construction of cash-register, since myimprovements are equally well adapted to various other forms ofcash-registers. I shall describe only so much of this style of machineas is necessary for a clear understanding of my invention and forthegeneral operation of the machine,

and for a more detailed descri tion of this kind of machine referencemay e had to the aforesaid patent.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,-

a series of keys 10 are pivoted u on a transverse shaft 11 and arearrange in various banks or groups of values graded in denominationsfrom units of cents to tens of cents rocking of the key-couplerreeiprocates said bar '17. This rac bar is slotted at its lower portion18 to straddle a pin 19, plliojecting from the mam frame of the mac ne,an

said lower portion is normally drawn rearward by means of a spring 20.By means of a lug 21, formed on the rack-bar 17, and a stationary lug22, formed on the main frame of the machine, on the upward reciprocationof the rack-bar 17 the one set of the teeth of the rack-bar 17 engageswith a pinion 23, fast upon the main operating-shaft 24 of the machine,and upon the downward reci rocation of the rack-bar 17 its other set ofteeth engages with the same pinion 23, so that upon the complete upwardand downward movement of the key-coupler upon the depression. of any keythis main operatingshaft 24 is given one complete revolution. Attachedto the rearward end of each key is a lifter-plate 25, and theselifter-plates are formed with notches 26, arranged at graduated verticaldistances above the lower ends of the keys and arranged to engageatransverse shaft 27 of the registering-frames 28 at different points inthe depression of the key, whereby to transmit to said registeringframea variable rocking movement commensurate with the value of the keydepressed, and this variable rocking movement of said registering-frame28 may be transmitted to any suitable counting devices. (Not shownherein.) All of this mechanism heretofore described is old and is setforth in detail in the aforesaid patent.

Resting upon the rear end of each key is a vertical indicator-operatingrod 30, which corresponds with the stems of the tablet-indicatorsdescribed in the aforesaid patent, but having the tablets upon the upperends of these stems removed and cooperating with another form ofindicating mechanism to be described. Th se rods 30 are arranged toslide vertically in suitable slots formed'in the transverse bars 31 and32, extending between the side frames of the machine. Each of these rods30 is formed with a horizontal rearwardlyeprojecting arm 33, which isbent lat-- orally at its rearward end to form a wing 34, (see Fig. 1,)and these wings 34 are arranged to cooperate with antifriction-rollers35 and 36, (see Figs. 1 and 5,) formed u on the down wardly-extendingarms 37 of be l-crank levers 38, pivoted at 39 to a cross-bar 39,extending between the side frames of the machine. The upper arms 40 ofthese bell-crank levers 38 are formed with slots 41, which engage pins42, projecting from a series of sliding indieator-plates 43. Theseindicator-plates 43 are mounted side by side, as shown in Fig. 2, therebein one of these plates for each of the aforesaid bell-crank levers 38,and it will be apparent that in order to have this arrangement of theindicator-plates 43 side by side, each connected with one of saidbell-crank levers, these bellcrank levers must be displaced laterallyone from the other, as shown in Fig. 2, being arranged in graduallateral displacement from the rear of the machine toward the front ofthe machine, beginning with the cents-bank of keys. Likewise in order tohave the aforesaid wings 34 in position to cooperate with the beveledrollers 35 and 36 upon these laterally-displaced bellcrank levers thearms 33, carrying said wings '34, will also have to be of graduatedlengths from the cents-bank to the dollar-bank, being of such length asto bring the wings 34 into the path of the said rollers 35 and 36 fortheir respective'bell-crank levers.

I have arranged the cents -bank of my machine with nine keys from onecent to nine cents; but I have arranged said keys to act in pairs uponthe bell-cranks 38that is, the one-cent and two-cent keys both act uponthe bell-crank lever farthermost to the right, (see Fig. 5,) the wing 34on the oneeent key being normally in line with the antifrietion-roller36 on said bell-crank lever and the wing 34 of the two-cent key beingnormally in line with the antifriction-roller 35 on this same bell-cranklever. Thus it will be observed that since in'the normal position ofrest of said keys said wings 34 are all at "the same height thedepression of the one-cent key will raise its rod 30 and cause its wing34 to contact with the roller 36 and rock the bell-crank lever 33 aboutits pivot 39, whereas the depression of the two-cent key will raise itsrod 30 and cause its wing 34 to contact with the roller 35 at an earlierpoint in the stroke of the key, thereby moving the bell-crank lever 38to a greater extent for the purpose to be described. Similarly thethree-cent key and the four-cent key act upon the same bell-crank lever,being next from the farthest to the right, (see Fig. 5,) to give saidbell-crank lever a graduated movement, the four-cent key moving the sameto a greater extent than the three-cont key. Likewise the remainingcent-keys arc arranged in pairs to operate upon their respectivebell-crank levers to give the same graduated movements, there being onelever for each air; but of course for the nine-cent key t ere can onlybe one bell-crank lever, and consequently there is no rollercorresponding to the roller 35 upon this bell-crank lever, but simply asingle roller 36, which eooperates with the wing 34 of the nine-cent keyto move the bell-crank lever and its attached indicator-plate, as willbe seen in Fig. 5, upon the fifth bell-crank lever,eounting from theright-hand end of the machine. This arrangement of bell-crank levers onefor each pair of keys, with a single nine-cent ke aeti-n upon thecorresponding nine-cent. be l-cran lever, is duplicated in the bank ofkeys for the units pf tens of cents and for the bank of keys for theunits of dollars, and it will be apparent that where two keys act uponthe same bell-crank lever the rearwardly-ext ending arms 33 of theaforesaid rods 30 may he graduated in length by pairs, so as to be incorrect lateral alinemcnt with the graduated lateral displacement of thebellcrank lovers. The usual form of pendent back hangers 48, cooperatingwith the rear ends 49 of the keys, serve to prevent the operation ofmore than one key at a time in any bank, all of which is well known inthe art and is not described here in detail, since it constitutes nopart of my present invention.

I will now describe the connections hetween the aforesaidindicator-plates 43 and their respective indicating-tablets, which aretration.

character, which in this case'is one of the numerals corresponding tothe value keys. (See Fig. 4.) Since, as heretofore explained, I havearranged to give these indicatorplates 43 a variable movement accordingto which one of a pair of keys is depressed, I may thus mark upon theaforesaid tablets 53 as many indicating characters as there are separatevariable positions of the aforesaid indicator-plates '43, which in thiscase for all the first eight keys of each group comprises two separateindicating positions that is, in the cents-bank I may mark upon thetablet attached to the first indicatorplate both the figures 1 and 2 andupon the tablet of the next indicator-plate the figures 3 and 4, and soon, and upon the indicator-plate for the nine-cen-tkey, of course only asingle numeral would be placed, being the 9, and this arrangement isduplicated for the other banks.

, At the top of the machine I have provided two cross-strips 54 (seeFigs. 5 and 6) to conceal these indicator-tablets from the front andfrom the rear of the machine; but these strips 54 are formed with threesight-openings 55, one for each group of keys, throughwhich theindication may be read when the indicator-tablets are moved intoposition in the manner to be described. A similar series ofsight-openings 56'is-provided at the rear of the machine, as shown inFig. 1, in order to display the indication at the rear of the machine,also by means of mechanism to be described. The normal relation betweenthe aforesaid tablets 53 and the sight-openings 55 at the front of themachine is such that no tablets are visible through these sight-openingsexcept certain tablets bearing a zero indication, the purpose of whichwill be set forth later. When, however, upon the operation of any keythe bell-crank-lever corresponding thereto is rocked in the mannerpreviously described, the indicator-plate 43 attached thereto is shiftedto the left, (see Fig. 5,) thereby carrying into indicatingposition oneof the lndicating characters u on the tablet 53, the correct displaydepen ing upon the extent of movement of said indidicator-plate, as willbe obvious from the description of the mechanism heretoforegiven. Thuswhen the one-cent key is depressed the indicating-plate correspondingthereto is given a certain extent of move ment enough to carry thefigure 1 into' view at the right-hand sight-opening 55, (see Fig. 5,)whereas if the two-cent key is depressed this same indicator-plate 43 isgiven a greater extent of movement and the figure 2 upon the same tablet53 is brought into view at the sight-opening 55. The duplication of thisarrangement throughout will be I apparent.

In order toprovide a zero indication in the case in which no key in thecent-bank is depressed, I have made the tablet 53 of the indicator-platefor the one-cent and two-cent keys of slightly greater width than theordinary tablets for the purpose of having marked thereon a zero, and inthe normal position of this tablet'this zero stands directly oppositethe sight-opening for the cent-bank,

so that if no key in the cents-b ank is operated this zero will showthrough said opening. When either the one-cent or'two-cent key isoperated, it will of course be apparent that this zero will be moved outof indicating po- -.Sition' with the movement of the tabletupon which itis carried. When any of the other keys in this cents-bank are operated,this zero-mark of course still remains opposite the sight-opening 55;but since the indicatorplate 43 for the one-cent and the two-cent keysis the farthest toward the rear of the machine in order to connect withits corre sponding bell-crank lever, which is also the farthest to therear of the machine, as heretofore explained, it will thus be-obviousthat the indicator-plates 43 for the other keys of the cents-bank willbe in front of the indicator-plate for the one-cent and two-cent keys sothat when shifted to the left uponthe operation of an such keys theirtablets will move into in icating position in front of the zero-markupon the one-cent and twocent tablet, thus obscuring this zero-mark fromview until these subsequently-operated tablets are returned to normalposition in the manner to be described. In the bank of tens 'ofcent-keys I have provided a different arrangement for thezero-indicator, comprising a separate and distinct tablet 56, (see Fig.5,) upon whichis marked a zero, said tablet being mounted upon a slidingframe. 57, which is normally drawn to the right by means of a spring 58,whichholds the zeroindicator normally in view through the si htopening55. -This frame 57 has forme on its lower side an arm 59, which projectsfrom the front to the rear of the machine across the path of all of theupwardly-extending arms 52 of the tablets of the ten-cent bank, so thatwhen any of said tablets are moved into indicating position theirrespective arms 52 will contact with said rearwardly-extending arm 59and force the frame 57 to the left against the'tension of the spring 58,thereby carrying the zero indicator out of indicating position andallowing the other tab- LIL &

let to move into indicating position. it will of course be obvious thatno zero indication is necessary upon the dollar-bank. From thisconstruction it will be apparent that if only a key in the dollar-bankis operated its corresponding numeral will be shown at the dollarsight-opening and the two zero-indicators will be shown at the tensight-opening and the unit sight-opening in the manner shown in Fig. 5and if only a key in the tensbank is operated nothing will be indicatedat the dollar sight-opening. The proper nuineral will be indicated atthe ten sight-opening, and the zero of the c nt sight-opening willcomplete the proper indicaticnj Likewise if only a key in the cents-ha kis operated its corresponding numeral .ill be indicated at the centssight-opening and a zero would be in position to indicate in the tenssight-opening; but by means of the screen mechanism, to belaterdescribed, both this zero and the sight-opening for the dollar hank areobscured, so that only the indication of the cents-numeral remainsexposed.

In order to hold the indicator-plates 4 in tne position tp which theyare moved, 1 nave provided latching mechanism, as follows: Each of theindicator-plates is' formed with two upwardly-extending projections 60,adapted to be engaged by the nose 61 of the latch 62, fast upon'a shaft63, suitably journaled in plates extending from the side frames of themachine. This latch is the shape of a bail extending transversely acrossall of the indicator-plates 43, so that upon the movement of any one ofsaid indicator-plates to the left it will be latched in either one ofits indicating positions by means of the engagement of one of theprojections 60 with the nose 61 of the latch 62, and a spring 64,engaging an upwardly-extending arm 65, fast to the latch 62, normallytends to hold said latch in engagement with the projection 60. Fast uponthe forward outer end of the shaft 63 is a crank-arm 66, to which isattached a downwardly-extending link 67, (see Figs. 2 and 5,) and thelower end of this link 67 is pivoted to a curved lever 68, pivoted tothe main frame at 69 and having a rearwardlyextending arm which is drawndownward by a spring 70 and a forwardly-extending arm provided with anose 72, which engages a cam-disk 73, fast upon the main revolutionshaft24. It will thus be evident that upon the operation of any key and theconsequent rotation of the shaft 24 in the direction of the arrow shownin Fig. 2 the disk 73 will cam the forward arm of the lever 68 downward,thereby operating, through the link 67, to rock the shaft 63, withdrawthe nose 61 of the latch 62 from engagement with the projections 60 ofany previously-operated indicator-plate, and thus allow saidindicator-plates to return to normal position under the spring tensionof returning devices to be described, and as soon as the cam-disk 7 3has rotated far enough to allow the lever 68 to return to normalposition the newly-displaced indicatonplates 43 are now in position tohave their projections 60 engaged by the latch 62, so that thesenewly-displaced indicator-plates will now remain in indicating positionuntil the next operation of a key, and, of course, in the manner usualwith this class ofmachines, a key in each bank may be simultaneouslyoperated so as to display the complete indication, and all of theindicator-plates will be held latched in this indicating position.

The means for effecting the return of the indicating-plates to normalposition when released from the aforesaid latch 62 is shown in 1. At therear of each group of the afore said bell-crank levers 38 there ismounted upon the upper side of the cross-strip 39 a sliding plate 80,which has extending upward iirofml it a series of projections 81,engaging pins 82, formed on the rear side of the upper arms 40 of theaforesaid bell-crank levers. These plates are formed with slots 80 (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) engaged by pins 83, which serve toguide said plates 80 in their lateral shifting movements. Springs 84,one for each plate 86, normally draw said plates toward the right-handside of the machine, (the left in Fig. 1,) sons to keep the projections81 in contact with the pins 82. it results from this construction thatwhen any bell-crank lever is rocked in the manner heretofore describedto carry its indicatingplate into position to expose itsindicatingtablet the pin 82, acting upon the projections 81, willdisplace the plate 80 laterally against the tension of its spring 84, sothat upon the release of the indicator-plate 43 from the latch 62, asheretofore described, the pressure of the projections 81 on the pin 82causes the return of the bell-crank lever to its normal position, andthereby also carries the indicator-plate 43 to normal position. Thisarrangement of the plate 80 is of course duplicated for each group ofbell-crank levers; but in the dollar-bank in order to return thebell-crank lever correspondin to the nine dollar key I have attachedatthe pivotal axis 39 of said bell-crank lever an upwardly-extendingL-shaped arm 87, which is bent forward at its outer end 88 in suchmanner as to bring this outer end into engagement with the projection81, extending upward from the plate 80 for this bank, whereby upon therocking of the bell-crank lever of the ninedollar key the L-shaped arm87 will also rock, and the bent portion 88, acting against theprojection 81, and thereby laterally displace the plate 80 against thetension of its spring just as the pins 82 do in the case of the otherbell-crap k levers, and thereby effecting the return of the nine-dollarindicating-plate to normal position. This L-shaped arm 87 is used forthe nii'ie-dollar key instead of using a projection such as 81 for theother keys on account of the lack of room due to the proximity of theside frame.

Since it is desirable to indicate at the sight openings 56 at the rearof the machine, as well as at the sight-openings 55 at the front of themachine, I have provided mechanism which I shall now describe foreffecting this.

' Each of the indicator-plates 43, corresponding to the bank ofcents-keys, is provided with two of the tablet-supporting armspreviously referred to, one of these arms 52 carrying the tablet withthe indicating characters arranged to be exposed at the frontsight-opening 55 and the other arm 52 carrying a similar tablet forindicating at the sight-opening 56 at the rear of the machine, and ofcourse at the opposite end of the machine, in order to have the correctorder of figures from left to right. The indicatorplate 43 for theone-cent and two-cent keys of the cents-bank is shown in detail in Fig.4, and it will be observed that the tablet for the front indicationbears the zero-mark, as heretofore explained, whereas the tablet for therear indication bears no zero-mark, the zeromark for this indicationbeing carried upon the 9 tablet for a reason to be explained. As will-beobserved also from Figs. 2 and 4, certain of these arms 52 and 52'' donot extend straight upward from the indicatorplate 43, but near theirlower ends are bent horizontally at right angles and then again bentupward at right angles. The purpose of this in the cents-bank is tobring the tablets nearer the front sight-opening 55 and also'to permitthe insertion back ofthese cents-tablets of the series ofdollartablets,whichare of course connected with the upwardlyextendingarm 52 of the indicator-plates 43 for the dollar-bank and obviously mustbe arranged to indicate at the rear opening 56, which is directlyopposite the front opening 55 of the cents indication, so as to have thecorrect indication at the rear from left to right. Since theindicator-plates 43 for the dollar-bank are thus nearest the front ofthe machine, their respective arms 52 for the back indication arelikewise bent laterally, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to bring theirrespective indicator-tablets near the rear opening 56 and at the same"time slide free of and in the rear of the centsmachine thezero-markmust be placed upon the 9 tablet, which is consequently widenedfor that purpose, so that the move ment of the cents-tab ets for anyamount below nine may bring this tablet in front of the zero-markon the9 tablet, which of course could not occur if the zero-mark were upon theone-cent and two-cent tablet, as in the case of the front indication,since the one-cent and two-cent tablet is the one which is nearesttherear of the machine.

In the case of the indication for the tencent bank it will at once beapparent that the same numerals may be used at the back'as at the frontof the machine, there being no necessity of any reversal of position, asin the case of the cents or the dollars. Therefore 1 have simplyprovided my tablets for the tencent bank with duplicate numerals on thefront and on the back, the front numerals of course indicating at thefront sight-openings 55 and the rear numerals indicating at the rearsight-opening 56. Likewise the zeroindicator for this ten-cent bank,which has been previously described, has a zero-mark upon its rear toshow azero-humeral at the rear of the machine.

I will now describe my flash mechanism, the purpose of which is toconceal the indicators upon the initial movement of any of the keys andafter the o eration of the key to expose only such of t e indicators asis necessary for a correct reading of the same without the display ofunnecessary zeros. This mechanism is shown in Fig. l and domprisesseparate screen-plates 90, 91, and 92 for each of the three sight-oenings 56 at the rear of the machine-name y, the cents, the dimes, andthe dollar openings, respectively. These screen-plates are mounted toslide upon the vertical cross-plate 54, and the plates 90 and 91 have attheir tops laterally- \extending arms 93 for the purpose of abuttingagainst the screen-plates next them, and it will thus be obvious thatthe movement of the screei plate 90 to the left into screening positionover the sight-opening 56 will by means of its arm 93 also move thescreenplate 91 over its sight-o ening, and the movement of this plate 91W1 1 by means of its arm 93also move the screen 92 over itssightofpening, and, conversely, the movement of t e screen 92'to revealits sight-opening will likewise cause the movement of the screens 90 and91 to reveal their sight-openings; but the movement of the dollar-screen92 to the left may take place independently of the other two screens andthe movement of the screen 91 to the left may take place independentlyof the screen 90., but will carry with it the screen 92. The screen 90has attached to its lower side a lever 94, pivoted to the cross-strip 95at 96, and the lower end of the cross-stri 39 at 104 and a s irin 105tends to draw the same to the left in such manner as to carry the screenover its corresponding sight-opening. The screen-plate 91 has connectedto it a iever 103,-pivoted to connects this lever with the plate 80,which returns the hell-crank levers of the dimeshank to normal position.The screenplate 92 has connected to it a lever 106, pivoted to thecross-strip 39 at 107, and an interme diate portion of this lever therepivoted a bar 108, which is supported by a 100, projecting -from thecross-strip 05, and by means of a slot 110 may have a lateral movementunder the influence of a spring 111, the righthand end of which isattached to he plate 80, which returns the hell-crank lovers of thedollar-hank to normal position. rem this construction it results thatwhen cents-hanl-1 is operated and its co ing plate 80 is forced to therigi'it erring to Fig. l) the spring is put in tension, and obviouslythrough the lever the 1111K 97 and the lever 04; moves the so: to theright, exposing the indie cents-hank. This moveme against the tension.ct s tends to return the screen A ing position. Therefore the spressarily of greater strength tha; 102. i i hen a key in the dimeserated, the movement or co' plate 80 acts, through the sprim iever 103,and thereby carries 91 to the right, thus er; osing toe noication in thedimes oank, this rnoveine oi the lever 103 being against e tension ci aspring 112, which tends to return said ove the left, so asto carry thescreen e 91 normally into screening position. co the movement of thescreen-plate 1e right in this manner also moves the con-plate '90 to theright, it results that the spring 105 must be of greater strength tlanthe comhined strength of the springs and 112, so as to reveal theindication at both the dimes and the cents hanks. if a key in Wedollarbank is operated, the movement oi its corresponding plate 80 actsupon the spring 1 i 1 to pull to the right the bar 108, and thereby pullthe lever 106 to the right, thus moving the screen-plate 92 to the rightand exposing the dollar indication, and of course the movementv of thescreen-plate 92 to right moves both the screen-plates 90 a id to theright, thus exposing their sighwcpenings, and since such movement is thetensionoi both springs 102 and 112 t e spring 111 must also be ofgreater strengtu than the former two springs combined. nice, asheretofore explained, upon the is: opera explained.

tion, such return of the plates 80 to normal position will release thetension of their res ective springs 101, 105, and 1]. in case tliey havepreviously been put under tension by the operation of a key in any oneof the respective banks, and thereby the springs 102 and 112 will actupon the indicator-plates J0 and 91 to draw the same into concealingposition, thereby also moving the screen-plate 92 into concealingposition. It will thus he apparent from this construction that at thebeginning of operation of any key any of the screen-plates which theyhave moved into position to reveal its corresponding indicator will hereturned to normal screening position. Furthermore, if a lrey in thecents-hank is operated only the screen-plate 90 will be moved intoexposing position, the other two screen plates 91 and remaining inconcealing position, so that the only figure which shows is thcamount ofthe cents registration without any confusion fro the presence ofsuperfluous a key in the dimes-hank alone is the screen-plate 91 will hemoved into exposing position, as herei the dimes-bank, will of coursegive the correct indication for the amount of registration; but in suchcase the screen-plate 02 re mains in concealing position, as heretoforeIn case a key in the dollar-hank alone is operated its correspondingnumeral will he exposed at the dollar-opening by the movement of thescreen-piate 92 to the right, which movement carries both thescreenplates 00 and 9 1 to the right, thus revealing the zeroindications looth in the centshank and in the dimes-hank, making acorrect indication the number of dollars registered in the manner inwhich the figures would ordinarily he written. Of course if a key ineach of the several banks is operated simultaneously all of theindicators will be exposed simultaneously in the manner above describedwith the figures exposed in the correct order and in the manner in whichthey would ordinarily he written.

in order to provide for the screening and exposing of the indicators atthe front of the machine, I have provided a duplicate set ofscreen-plates 120, 121, and 122 (see Fi s. 5 and 6) for hesight-openings at the tront of the machine, covering thecents-indicators, the dinies, and the dollar indicators, respectively,and in order that the screen-plate 90 may move its correspondingscreenirate 120 I have provided a link 123, which connects thehorizontal arms 12 1, which extend in- .ward from the screen-plates 90and 120 and over the rows of indicator-tablets. Like wise oy means or alink 125 the screen-plates ssaszc 92 and 122 are connected to movesimultaneously, and by means of a cross-strip 126 the screen-plates 91and 12]. for the (limes indication are also connected, it being evidentthat these cross connections are such that upon the movement of any ofthe rear screen plates into concealing position it will likewise carryin concealing position its corresponding screen-,plate at the frontsightopenings.

While the form of mechanism here shown and described is admirablyadaptedto fulfil the objects primarily stated, it is to be un-. derstood that Ido not care to confine myself to any one form of embodiment of the invention here disclosed, for it is-susceptibl'e of em bodiment in variousforms all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cash-register, the combination with a series ofkeys, of aplurality of indicatingplates therefor, a certain portion of each ofwhich plates bears a plurality of indicating characters; and meansconnected with the keys for moving into one and the same indicatingposition common to the entire group of plates the charactercorresponding to the key depressed.

2. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys arranged ingroups, of a plurality of indicating-plates for each of said groups acertain portion of each of which plates bears a plurality of indicatingcharacters; and connections between the keys of each group and thecorresponding indicatorplates for this group arranged to give saidplates a variable movement whereby to bring to one and the sameindicating "position common to this entire group the charactercorresponding to the key depressed.

S. in a cash-register, the combination with a series of depressiblekey-levers denominationally grouped, of laterally-slidableindicatorlates similarly grouped, there being a plurality of such platesfor each denominational group and each plate having a display part orportion bearing a plurality of indicating characters, and operatingconnections between the respective groups of key-levers and theirrespective groups of indicatingplates with provisions for variablyshifting a plate by coaction with a plurality of keys of a group.

t. in a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys arranged ingroups, of a plu rality of indicating-plates for each of said groups acertain portion of each of which plates bears a plurality of indicatingcharacters; connections between the keys of each group and thecorresponding indicator-plates for this group arranged to give saidplates :1. variable movement whereby to bring to one and the sameindicating position at the front of the machine the charactercorresponding to the key depressed; and means connecting saidindicator-plates with corresponding indiflcators for indicating at theback of themachine.

5. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys arranged ingroups, of a plurality of indicating-plates for each of said groups acertain portion of each of which plates bears a plurality of indicatingcharacters; connections between the keys of each group and thecorresponding indicator-plates for this group arranged to give saidplates a variable movement whereby to brmg to one and the sameindicating position at the front of the machine the charactercorresponding to the key depressed said characters being arranged inproper reading order fiom left to right; and means connecting saidindicatorplates with corresponding indicators for in dicating in theproper order at the back of the machine.

6. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys arranged ingroups, of a casing having a series of sight-openings one for each ofsaid groups; a plurality of indicatingthe key depressed.

7 In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys arranged ingroups, of a casing having a series of sight-openings one for each ofsaid groups; a plurality of indicating plates for each of said groupscertain portions of each plate bearing a plurality of indicatingcharacters; a bell-crank lever connected to each plate; a plurality ofprojections formed upon each of said bell-crank'lee vers; operatingprojections connected with each key'arranged to-cooperate with its corresponding projection upon said bell-crank levers whereby a plurality ofsaid keys operate upon a single bell-crank lever and give itsindicator-plate variable movements corresponding to the key depressed;and connections between said indicator-plates and a corresponding setiof indicators controlled in the same manner by said keys whereby toindicate both at the front and at the rear; of the machine.

8. In a cash-register, the combination-with a series of keys arranged ingroups, of a casing having a series of sight-openings one for each ofsaid groups; a plurality of indicatingplates for each of said groupscertain portions of eacli plate bearing a plurality of indicatingcharacters; hell-crank lever connected I each pia c; a plurality oiprojections iorinee upon each of said hell-crank levers; operatinprojections connected with each key a ranged to cooperate with itscorresponding l projection upon said hell-crank levers Whei'c by aplurality oi said keys operate upon a single bell-crank lever and giveits indicatorplate variable movements correspoi'iding LO depressed;connections between s: 'd

the k indicator-plates and a corresponding of indicators controlled inthe same manner oy said keys whereby to indicate both at the front andthe rear of the machine; latching projections formed upon each of saidplates to hold the same in indicating position latch cooperating withsaid projections and means connected With all of said keys .o; cratingsaid latch.

9. in a cashregister, the combination with a series of keys arranged ingroups of graded denominations, of a series of individual indicatormechanisms for each group also arranged in graded denominations; ofindivii' uai screens for each of said indicator mechanisms; meansconnected with said keys for moving all of said screens into concealingposition upon the beginning of operation. of any key; and means alsoconnected with said keys for moving into exposing position the screen ofthe group oi the key operated together with the screens of all lowerdenominations and for leaving in concealing position the screens of allhigher denominations.

10. in a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys arrangedin groups, of an indicating mechanism for each group arerated theremainder of said ranged to indicate at the front and rear ol themachine; an individual screen for each indicating n echanism; meansconnecting the screens of the corresponding groups at the l'ronl; andthe rear the machine I and means connected with i (i keys for ()'!iL!-l'-l11 j-Oliif, a predetermined number and leaving unopns accord ing tothe group of the key depr ii, in a cash-rr-agister, the combination Witha group keys, oi a plurality of indicating devices each having aplurality of indicia thereon, and means controlled by the keys, whichwhen operated Will carry any of the inrlicia on any indicating device toappear in a common viewable position 12. in a cash register, thecombination With a group of keylevers, of a plurality of indicators eachhaving a plurality of separa tc amounts thereon, ano means operated bythe key-levers for moving the indicators dijll'erentially to exhibit anyamount on any indicator at a common. sight-opening.

13. in a cash-register, the combination. With a group of keys, ofsliding indicatingplates each having a plurality of separate indicationsthereon, and connections between the keys and plates for dillerentiallysliding the latter to bring any indication on any plate to a common lineof sight in testimony whereof I a'llii; my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

JOSEPl-i CLl-EAL.

Witnesses Jenn A. Wartime, llAiVs'ARD.

